Vol. 2, No. 2 (2022)
Table of Contents
Rhizosphere Engineering for Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Production
Dr. Akash Srivastava, Dr. Monika Thakur
Abstract: Background: One of the key issues facing worldwide agriculture is increasing crop production and decreasing its dependency on synthetic agrochemicals while also sustaining soil and ecosystem health. The rhizosphere is understood as the narrow band of soil around the roots, which can b...
Integrative Omics Approaches for Understanding Crop Stress Adaptation
Dr. Caio Martins
Abstract: Context: Climate change exacerbates abiotic and biotic stressors, which serve as the major hindrance in improving the productivity of crops around the globe. Recent improvements in genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic, metabolomic, epigenomic, and phenomic technologies support a huge am...
Deep Learning Algorithms for Automated Crop Phenotyping: A Systematic Review of Methods, Applications, and Emerging Trends
Dr. Nabil Youssef, Dr. Sherif Hamdy, Dr. Tran Minh Duc, Dr. Le Quoc Bao
Abstract: Background: Crop phenotyping refers to the quantitative assessment of plant form, function, and stage of development. It addresses a major constraint in modern crop improvement methods. Traditional manual phenotyping is labor intensive, subjective, and hence scaled poorly. With advanc...
Sensor-Based Assessment of Plant Water Status in Smart Irrigation Systems: A Critical Review of Technologies, Evidence, and Emerging Directions
Dr. Nguyen Minh Anh
Abstract: Background: The combination of declining water sources and worsening rainfall variations has resulted in the strain that has never been seen before on irrigated agriculture. Analytics that use sensors to measure plant water status have become a key element in the innovations aimed at ...
Soil Organic Matter Dynamics Under Regenerative Agriculture Practices: A Critical Review of Global Evidence
Dr. Christopher Walker, Dr. Andrew Mitchell, Dr. Joshua Green, Dr. Matthew Hall
Abstract: General Background: Regenerative Agriculture (RA) has developed into a leading approach applied to address long-term reductions in soil organic matter (SOM) associated with conventional crop production through tillage. A number of practices identified with RA, including reduced/no-til...
Quantifying Agroecosystem Resilience Through Ecophysiological Indicators
Dr. Oliver Thompson, Dr. Henry Collins, Dr. Jacob Morris, Dr. Oscar Bennett, Dr. Samuel Reed
Abstract: Background: Agroecosystems around the globe are experiencing many simultaneous climate, hydrology, and biotic events that make it imperative to find methods to measure their resilience, which should go beyond the mere assessment of the amount of yield. Techniques of any ecophysiology ...
Microbial-Mediated Nutrient Transformation in Sustainable Soil Management
Dr. Luc Bernard, Dr. Victor Renault, Dr. Maxime Girard, Dr. Hugo Lambert
Abstract: Background: Microorganisms in the soil are responsible for the transformation, mobilization, and cycling of nutrients essential for plants. Recently, it has become more obvious that the activity of microorganisms plays an important role in decreasing dependency on synthetic agrochemic...
Bioinformatics Approaches for Identifying Stress-Responsive Genes in Crops
Dr. Shota Watanabe, Dr. Ji-Ho Lee, Dr. Min-Seok Choi
Abstract: Introduction: Abiotic and biotic stressors remain among the main limiting factors affecting global agricultural production, particularly drought, which has been correlated with decreases in average yield of over 10 percent for cereals. The arrival of both high-throughput sequencing an...
Comparative Analysis of Carbon Footprints in Diversified Cropping Systems
Dr. Deng Rui, Dr. Qiu Wen, Dr. Guo Peng, Dr. Shen Kai
Abstract: Background: The use of diversified cropping systems, which encompass various methods such as crop rotation, intercropping, cover cropping, and agroforestry, has been promoted as an alternative to resource-intensive monocultures in the context of climate resiliency. Agrifood activities...
Plant Hormonal Crosstalk During Abiotic Stress Adaptation: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms, Evidence, and Emerging Frontiers
Dr. Kevin Kamau
Abstract: The background of the research is about plants as stationary species that depend on phytohormonal networks—abscisic acid (ABA), ethylene, jasmonic acid (JA), salicylic acid (SA), auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins, brassinosteroids, strigolactone, and more contemporary melatonin&m...